Ozy Media stiffs ‘Genius Award’ recipients out of $10K grants following arrest of CEO Carlos Watson

When reached for comment, Kenneth Montgomery, a lawyer representing Ozy Media and the Watson family in the upcoming fraud trial, blamed the company’s inability to follow through on its funding pledge on the federal indictment — which targeted both Watson as an individual and the company itself.

“The fact that deserving students have been deprived of funding for their college education is a collateral consequence of the government’s unprecedented prosecution of OZY Media, one of the only Black owned media companies in Silicon Valley,” Montgomery said in a statement to The Post.